Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-March-22

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-March-22

[Kevin Traynor]

Minutes of Technical Board Meeting, 2023-March-22

Members Attending
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-Aaron
-Bruce
-Hemant
-Jerin
-Kevin (Chair)
-Maxime
-Stephen
-Thomas

NOTE: The technical board meetings every second Wednesday at
https://meet.jit.si/DPDK at 3 pm UTC.
Meetings are public, and DPDK community members are welcome to attend.

NOTE: Next meeting will be on Wednesday 2023-April-05 @3pm UTC, and will
be chaired by Konstantin.

1) Marketing update (Nathan)
-We need to provide content to maximise the marketing resources
-A good example is Morten's content on using DPDK
https://www.dpdk.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2023/02/DPDK_UserStory_SmartShare_020223.pdf

2) Event planning (Nathan)
-Dublin in September is most likely venue
-Difficult to estimate in-person attendance based on previous years and
economic environment
-Nathan will send out a survey to try and gauge interest for in-person
attendance

3) Technical Writer (Nathan)
-The hiring interviews are currently in progress.

4) Policy for obsolete patches (Bruce)
-A lot of pages in patchwork, should older patches be moved to a new
obsolete state?
-Adding a new state would cause difficulties for patchwork upgrade
-Reject state could be used
-A script to do automatically and send an email with links etc would be best
-Ali may be able to investigate a way to automate this

5) Code formatting tools (Bruce)
-Any way to better automate formatting of code?
-clang-format was suggested and already being used by some
-Stephen has been looking at this, he will send a patch to kick off

6) Multiple MAC address support and API behavior were discussed (Ferruh)
-Pros and cons to each approach
-Ferruh will propose solution for vote on email by techboard

7) Bugzilla usage (breakout from previous topic)
-Is it being used enough? Are bugs getting the right level of attention etc?
-Konstantin to add this as a topic for next techboard meeting